Eight months after arriving in France, 10-year-old Fatimate from Côte d'Ivoire and her family were about to be deported back to Italy. Thanks to a protest by the girl's school, the deportation has been postponed. But it has not been cancelled.
About 80 people on the street, mainly migrants, were given places in emergency centers and hotels following an action on Saturday by the "collective requisition." These activists, along with homeless people, occupied empty wings of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris, demanding accommodation.
Fearing deportation and racist attacks, migrants stranded in the Canary Islands have been on hunger strike recently to demand their transfer to the mainland. There have also been reports of self-mutilation.
Cold, hungry, forgotten: 250 migrants have turned a disused Paris office into their temporary home. In recent months, this type of abandoned building has become one of the only solutions for those left on the streets.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of legal foreign residents in France who received family reunification approvals have been unable to get visas for their relatives. They say the suspension of these visa applications is "discriminatory".
In Paris, young Afghans who lived in a now dismantled makeshift migrant camp are being temporarily sheltered in an exhibition hall. Although the premises are heated and have relaxation areas, the migrants lack medical attention, according to NGO workers.
With Britain separating from the European Union, InfoMigrants takes a closer look at how migrants wishing to settle in the UK will be affected.
Deforestation operations in areas in and around the northern French city of Calais have intensified in recent months, according to migrant aid groups. The NGOs say this is yet another deterrant strategy aimed at preventing migrants from seeking shelter in the woodlands.
In the past 12 months, authorities have carried out more than 1,000 evictions of makeshift shelters across France, a new report shows. Aid groups warn that the evictions only make the situation worse for those whose homes are dismantled.
French Guiana in South America has become both a destination and a popular transit point for migrants hoping to reach France. The fragile social system in the French territory is buckling under the pressure of increasing migrant arrivals. InfoMigrants' Charlotte Oberti reports from Cayenne.
Kandia, a Guinean who arrived in France a month ago, narrowly escaped death in the Mediterranean Sea. In July, he boarded an inflatable boat with 84 other migrants, convinced, as the smugglers had promised, that they would be rescued after a few hours. Their ordeal lasted five days in the end.
A study published by Doctors Without Borders revealed that a high percentage of people living in extreme hardship in shelters and workers' hostels in the Paris region had been infected with COVID-19. The medical charity recommends ending accommodation in gymnasiums.